Michael said:
In concise form, can any 'light be thrown' on the commands below? Corel
is telling me that the issue does not lie with them. So a second
opinion remains favourable.
'Cannot Connect to Server'
Or
'An unknown response was received in response to a request for
information from the news server 'cnews.corel.com.'
Thanks
Michael Feldman
The instructions are here.
http://corel.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/754345
I'm using Thunderbird, and I can reach that server and access
it on the standard port (119). I can see a list of groups.
And using Wireshark, I can see packets being exchanged with
cnews1.corel.com . I use Wireshark sometimes, to debug news
server problems, look at the packets and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark
My guess would be, it has something to do with the reverse
translation of that IP address. When I try that, my local
DNS won't resolve it. It could be, that the agent you're using
to read newsgroups, does reverse lookup to verify the server
name you provided, and that is failing. Change newsreaders
and try again.
You can get Thunderbird here, if you want to try it out.
Create your newsgroup account in here.
(Thunderbird is up to version 3, but I'm still using version 2.)
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Paul